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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought you need post graduate degree in Econ to get any entry level analyst job[/quote]

We (economists) have jobs for kids with bachelors. Research assistants generally earn a masters degree within a few years, part time at night.

If your kids want a good job with an Econ degree, they should take plenty of math.[/quote]

Econ majors from top 10 schools are getting their masters degrees part-time at night? 
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Yup. While they have day jobs as research assistants at top research agencies and think tanks. Then in a few years they go off for PhDs.
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What part-time programs are they doing? This is in NYC? 
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Johns Hopkins around here
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And then NY for PhD? Don’t they want to end up in the NY area? 
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No, why would they prefer to be in NYC?

Columbia and NYU are very good for economics but typically people would pick the two top Boston Schools (Harvard/MIT) over them. 
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I'm pretty sure there has never been and [b]never will be a Clark Medal winner from a part-time economics program[/b]. You go to Columbia if Joe Stiglitz wants you as a grad student.  PhD decisions are driven by the individual faculty you will be working with, not the ranking of the program. [/quote]

There is a big difference between gaining a master's to help advance one's career in the private sector - (for which a part time program or approach may make a TON of sense, especially if the employer is paying for all or part of the degree) and pursuing a position in higher education.

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+1  [b]Nobody is going to a part-time program because they want to pursue a career in academia. [/b]They are doing it for career advancement and as the PP pointed out, they are also working at the same time and usually getting most or all of the degree paid for by tuition reimbursement.

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Not true.  They are doing it to toughen up their academic credentials and skills before they apply to academia.  It is common to take a few years off before starting a PhD in econ.  A chunk of the Americans in my program had been in RA programs and done those masters. I was in a top ten program.

And I do know academics who got those Hopkins-style masters.  They got another one from their highly ranked grad programs, but they got in after being RAs.[/quote]

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